The Wicked Witch

Back today with two cards for Halloween! First a card I made for my daughter for Halloween! We both love Halloween (maybe even more than Christmas). Even though she's 1500 miles away in Wisconsin, I wanted to contribute to the festivities for a Halloween party she's hosting. I used the Tim Holtz Distress Oxides for the background with the spritz and smoosh technique and a few of his Halloween die cuts and stamps! so much fun!

I'm adding this to the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge for  Spooky Halloween ! 

Here's a picture of the second card I made for a friend:

I just added this to the Wednesday challenge as I don't think I posted correctly to the Monday challenege .... still trying to figure this blog thing out!

https://www.simonsaysstampblog.com/wednesdaychallenge/

Scarecrow Tags

These two scarecrow tags started out as an experimental background using Halloween words cut out from a tag to reveal a stamped and distressed tag beneath.

Here's how they started out:

Then, I added some stamping on top of the distress inking:

Next, punched out some words and backed with some Tim Holtz distress paper. 

Then I coated the tags with a thin film of watered down gesso.  This really knocked back the layers in the background more than I anticipated.

The tags in the end with their scarecrow die cuts and details added.